As massive Foo Fighters fans, we were devastated. Subscribers can read the full Cage The Elephant interview in the new edition of Music Week, out now. The tour manager looked at the poem and invited me into his dressing room. That makes a lot more sense!’” At that point, we were living in Leyton at a time when it was dangerous to be there. “When I was a kid, I was obsessed with civil war history. Email: musicweek@abacusemedia.com. The sad thing about lyricists is they have to experience pain to write, either personal or worldview. He’s the guy. Unlike an English band, we can’t roll out of the doors and play shows here, it’s a process. We just wanted to get out of our small town so we thought you were just left to the forces that were at play.”, “In the fifth grade?! We’ll have to see how the radio airplay goes, standard stuff, rock bands aren’t big streaming acts, we’re not pop acts.
The singer introduced tracks from Social Cues, which is released on April 19. Previously, Shultz was married to Juliette Buchs from 2014-2018. Matt feels it all.”, “Really excited. They’re a radio-driven band, I don’t think bands that are great live and don’t have radio impact will get big enough in enough time to be able to draw enough people. “The interesting story of the first album is that they were signed by a UK company before anywhere else and they’re from Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Over the intercom, the captain says: ‘No need to worry, that was just classic static discharge’.
We went, ‘Fuck, this guy’s a star’. I think this is the record to do it. Our per diems were quite low, so sometimes we’d have to make the decision between calling home and eating.
I don’t ask him why he writes his lyrics, frankly I just hope he can. We saw Matt play a show where he jumped into the audience and had himself carried all the way to the front of house. An A&R guy named Michael Goldstone [Mom + Pop] heard the first record and it had these songs, Back Against The Wall, In One Ear… he said it was amazing. You used to look out the window and take in the experience and this used to be exciting. What’s that?’, then realised it’s a make-up company and I should probably search for something different. Eva Daire is an actress, dancer and musician. “They’ve succeeded by always putting great songwriting first, and I’m pleased to say Social Cues is stuffed full with brutally personal guitar songs that stand up with, and surpass their best to date. Matt Shultz is my Mick Jagger.
Then all of a sudden I’m dancing off with Mick Jagger (Laughs), thinking this is bizarre!”, “(Laughs) Well it’s a substance that’s not as vilified as it used to be – and legal in a lot of places. Jason Iley heads Queen's birthday honours list. Mick Jagger attends the 2017 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Graydon Carter at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on Feb. 26, 2017 in Beverly Hills, Calif. An email has been sent to you containing a link to reset your password. Leading Columbia executives including president Ferdy Unger-Hamilton were present, alongside Mensch and Shultz, at a recent playback event in London. ", “Matt’s a complicated guy. Brad just had it in his mind that somehow Beck would know the answer (Laughs). Which is morbid! As a lead singer he can do things that you can’t do if you’re playing guitar. For assistance please contact Our Customer Service on: Tel: +44(0)20 8955 7020. Six band members, crew members, it’s expensive, you have to have some kind of critical mass. We have to get to 17, 19, 21, 23,000… We have to go up the food chain, that’s all we’re focused on. Mmmmn, I don’t know. Mensch’s relationship with the band began in the wake of their self-titled debut album, released via Relentless in 2008. “The question for them is, ‘Can they do it again?’ It’s like climbing Mount Everest, you can get to 17,000 feet, but if you don’t get to 19,000 you’re stuck. To subscribe and never miss a big music biz story, click here. Mick simply set the bar too high, I actually like to think Matt is closer to being the Iggy Pop of our generation. Then Mick does a move, then someone else. ", It’s Matt’s performance. (Laughs) He was in protective mode and had read an article saying there was a song about suicide on one of their records and feared it might influence us badly, so he took the record and destroyed it front of our very eyes!
I got up at 5am and looked in the mirror and thought: ‘Today your life may be demanded of you’. Please enter your email so we can send you password reset link.
An email has been sent to you containing a link to reset your password. And I thought: ‘You jaded fuck! The challenge was writing my own verse – which hopefully wouldn’t shame the two he’d written! Sign up to our daily newsletter plus other alert services. Here, we present Music Week’s Q&A with Mensch, in which he tackled rock’s streaming problem, the difficulties of breaking through and more. Everyone erupts and starts screaming. Peter Mensch has opened up about his plan to turn Cage The Elephant into a rock band able to have a career like Red Hot Chili Peppers or Metallica. (Laughs) Music felt dangerous in our house – when my parents weren’t home, we’d sneak and listen to my father’s old record collection which he’d hidden away.”. Mensch’s relationship with the band began in the wake of their self-titled debut album, released via Relentless in 2008. We saw Matt play a show where he jumped into the audience and had himself carried all the way to the front of house.
Q Prime co-founder and rock veteran Mensch is interviewed alongside frontman Matt Shultz and Columbia co-MD Manish Arora in the new edition of Music Week, out now.
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Early on, we didn’t know that bands could be a driving force in their own creative vision.
He’s Axl Rose, he’s Mick Jagger, he’s around the stage. Peter Mensch has opened up about his plan to turn Cage The Elephant into a rock band able to have a career like Red Hot Chili Peppers or Metallica. Fran Healy: 'I'm sick of getting booted in the balls for being a songwriter', National Album Day organiser Megan Page on how the event has evolved for 2020, Charts analysis: Queen score 10th No.1 album, Charts analysis: 24kGoldn secures third week at summit, Beyoncé & The Weeknd producer Ben Billions joins Warner Chappell Music in exclusive admin publishing deal, Nea's reign continues on the Music Moves Europe Talent chart, Geoff Taylor calls for post-Covid boost for UK music, Reservoir signs global publishing deal with Kylie co-writer Jon Green, BPI boss Geoff Taylor talks Q3's magic numbers, LABEL AND PROMOTIONS MANAGER - Classics and Jazz. “We had played one show on tour with Foo Fighters when Jared experienced excruciating pain in his abdomen. We were defacing public property – we deserved it! I wore it to school every day for two weeks – they had to call home and tell my mother I wasn’t allowed to wear it anymore!”, “(Singing) ‘I’ve got my X-Ray eyes on and I’m feel so fine/Night running/All night running’. At the time, I was performing as a character called The Public Fool and was wearing just ballet spanx or pantyhose each night. How has your relationship with Cage The Elephant evolved?
Even in Pop people still get compared to Michael Jackson even though he's been dead for 8 years now (RIP), so I don't think this will come anytime soon in Rock. He’s the guy. He wears his emotions right there. I mean, we ended up having to purchase the chandelier from King Tut’s in Glasgow when I hung upside down from and it broke from the ceiling. Mick took one look at me and says: ‘Well, I wish I’d known – I would have dressed up too!’ (Laughs). We only manage one other band where the lead singer doesn’t play guitar.
It’s all pretty awkward and quiet, then Dave bursts through the door with whisky in one hand and tequila in the other, yelling: ‘Shottttts!’. For assistance please contact Our Customer Service on: Tel: +44(0)20 8955 7020. He was trying to pull out his ID and a little bag of marijuana fell out of his pocket. “We were feeling good about the chorus, but were lost as far as the approach to the verses. We have to get to 17, 19, 21, 23,000… We have to go up the food chain, that’s all we’re focused on.
I was obliged to give them what they wanted, and separated my ribs from my sternum – which was pretty intense.”, “Mmmnnn, I can’t remember. When we played the Vic in Chicago, I climbed the speaker stack not realising how high it was.
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My party joke to people who know my roster would be, ‘Name the only act under the age of 40 where the lead singer doesn’t play guitar’ and no one knows. Shultz, who went through a divorce while making Social Cues, his band’s fifth album, told Music Week that the record “saved my physical life”.
She gifted you a Green Day album which your father snapped to smithereens in front of you. All I want to do is find lead singer-fronted rock bands, they’re a dying breed. I don’t know if that was myself or Brad.”, “For sure, yeah! When rock bands have pop hits it’s like, ‘What was that? When we were in high school, our parents divorced and it was the classic broken home situation where we played the two sides off against each other and got away with more than we should!”, “He was lovely.
The sad thing about lyricists is they have to experience pain to write, either personal or worldview. The new album is very emotional… “Matt’s a complicated guy. My teenage self would have wigged out knowing I was texting Beck about creative stuff and video ideas the night before the Grammys – because he was one of my heroes.”, “I’d like to work with Mark Ronson and team up with Kanye West at some point. I actually got caught one time – which was embarrassing.”, “That was the last video we made where we didn’t play much of a creative role. Peter Mensch has opened up about his plan to turn Cage The Elephant into a rock band able to have a career like Red Hot Chili Peppers or Metallica.
Refresh my memory.”. I was probably eye-level with the third-tier balcony – and the crowd weren’t going to let we get down any other way but jumping! Subscribers can read the full Cage The Elephant interview in the new edition of Music Week, out now. Ahead of new Cage The Elephant album Social Cues, Q Prime co-founder and rock veteran Mensch is interviewed alongside frontman Matt Shultz and Columbia co-MD Manish Arora in the new edition of Music Week, out now.
I was a mess, but he was so sweet and it was like he was protecting me throughout that episode.
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